Hold Down The Block-Nas

[ti:Hold Down The Block] [ar:Nas] [al:Hip Hop Is Dead] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Hold Down The Block - Nas [00:10.38]I gotta lay down the block [00:11.85] [00:13.03]When the block is hot [00:14.30] [00:15.38]I gotta use my imagination [00:17.36] [00:17.97]To change the situation [00:19.47] [00:20.67]I gotta lay down the block [00:22.50] [00:23.33]When the block is hot [00:24.54] [00:25.82]I gotta use my imagination [00:27.71] [00:28.39]To change the situation [00:30.71]Yea Feds feast on street dons [00:32.00]Look at their teeth showin' [00:34.00]Salivatin' at the mouth [00:35.48]South to East Orange [00:36.70]Keep pourin' that liquor [00:38.01]But ni**a don't sleep on it [00:39.15]You'll be givin' up your Jesus piece [00:40.69]To your peeps to pawn it [00:41.84]For legal fees in the penal dorm [00:43.62]Screamin' on the horn with 'bout [00:45.30]Thirty years on your conscience [00:46.37]I'm watchin' brothers disappear [00:47.97] [00:48.51]It's appallin' [00:49.37]Some dudes had just only a year of ballin' [00:51.84]Counter-intelligence [00:52.15] [00:53.01]Found a strange evidence [00:54.10](When the block is hot) [00:55.05]Still we behind the wheel with heat on us [00:56.91]Hangin' with predicates [00:58.10]Position we placed in caves in [00:59.38]So they got us caged in [01:00.63]Ways spinnin' like Mike Bivens [01:02.11]From New Edition aging [01:03.22]I got families I'm feeding ' [01:05.15]Cause my mans is bleeding [01:06.52]Every five seconds look in all directions [01:08.47]I come through prepared; [01:10.15]I give 'em a call [01:11.08]I'm close bring them guns downstairs [01:12.75]I gotta lay down the block [01:14.18] [01:14.84]When the block is hot [01:16.20] [01:17.45]I gotta use my imagination [01:19.98]To change the situation [01:22.16] [01:22.87]I gotta lay down the block [01:24.76] [01:25.46]When the block is hot (hold it down) [01:28.42]I gotta use my imagination [01:29.98] [01:30.71]To change the situation [01:32.86]Uh uh it's beef week [01:34.03]Monday murder [01:35.12]Two niggaz dead Tuesday [01:36.69]Wednesday and Thursday is hearse-day [01:38.38]Friday somebody-gotta-die-day [01:40.27]Saturday put the gat away [01:42.40]Chillin' wit your chick and a bag of haze [01:44.86]Wonderin' how it's all gon' end [01:46.65]And what type of way [01:47.59]'Cause Sunday back to gunplay [01:49.11]Mo' sh*t start over nothin' [01:50.61] [01:51.20]And get finished quick 'cause [01:52.31]The art of repercussion [01:53.54] [01:54.19]Yeah I seen it a G' going out indecent [01:56.96]Takin' a plea agreement [01:58.15]Thinkin' he secret [01:59.33]Escape the crime scene [02:00.52]Now you live straight like 9:15 [02:02.84]Then one-time intervene [02:04.57]My man ain't like me sayin' [02:05.65]I don't care if I die [02:06.89]But the SIG Sauer on me now [02:08.55]I'm scared to die [02:09.52]You thinkin' the one [02:10.55]I send to clap you be a shorty [02:11.97]But he old school holdin' a 38 [02:13.55]He in his forties [02:14.70]I gotta lay down the block [02:16.48] [02:17.43]When the block is hot [02:18.51] [02:19.94]I gotta use my imagination [02:21.68] [02:22.84]To change the situation [02:24.50] [02:25.20]I gotta lay down the block [02:26.87] [02:27.40]When the block is hot [02:28.91] [02:29.97]I gotta use my imagination [02:32.17] [02:32.85]To change the situation [02:34.24] [02:35.05](I gotta ) Anytime brothers [02:36.24]Can't get jobs then they rob [02:38.39]A man rather die than [02:39.38]Live on his knees and starve [02:41.14]Cops steady askin' your man what happened [02:43.44]First he tell then he stop [02:44.55]Like he not really rattin' [02:46.14]Guess he not really [02:46.88]In that casket from a sawed-off [02:48.41] [02:49.04]Listen [02:49.28]Peep game from the brain of an all-star [02:51.68]The rain hurt niggaz bones who been shot [02:53.91]Metal pins in their leg [02:55.38]They walk with a limp-hop [02:56.95]The streets lie [02:57.55]So you better be cautious [02:59.14]Your man'll fry you plus [03:00.55]Everybody talkin' [03:01.48] [03:02.16]A vet a General [03:03.01]Don't step where I walked in [03:04.49]Make your own path [03:05.52]Be a legend in your skin [03:07.02]Make your own cash [03:07.85]Don't stress what I'm forcin' [03:09.38]Don't expect more [03:09.92]When you put in less work than all them [03:12.02] [03:12.57]Queensbridge projects has taught him [03:14.71]And that's for life [03:16.01]You heard me right I got the block [03:17.84] [03:18.65]When the block is hot [03:20.03] [03:28.99](When the block is hot) [03:29.95] [03:32.93]I gotta use my imagination [03:34.47] [03:35.24]To change the situation [03:37.06] [03:37.86]I gotta hold down the block [03:39.58] [03:40.45]When the block is hot [03:41.64] [03:42.99]I gotta use my imagination [03:44.81] [03:45.65]To change the situation [03:47.37] [03:48.24]I gotta hold down the block [03:49.86] [03:50.93]When the block is hot [03:52.12] [03:53.51]I gotta use my imagination